Voting topic for the new EBT icon

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:26 pm

Whatever - it works with my system. Thanx, avij!

micro · Post by **micro** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:32 pm

avij wrote:I have installed the icon to the EBT webserver

Sorry, there's no icon, neither in Mozilla nor in MSIE. And there's no <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" ...> tag in the source. Would be a nice poll topic:

Can you see the icon?
- Yes, in IE.
- Yes, in Mozilla.
- Yes, in Blabla.
- No, not at all.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:03 pm

I have IE6. First the icon was not there - then I bookmarked EBT once again - the icon appeared in my "favorites" and now it also appears in my URL box.

Next step: Add the icon to the forum as well!

avij · Post by **avij** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:28 pm

micro wrote:Sorry, there's no icon, neither in Mozilla nor in MSIE. And there's no <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" ...> tag in the source.

MSIE is an unfortunate example, as it generally won't display the icon unless you've bookmarked www.eurobilltracker.com after the favicon.ico was installed, and removing/readding ebt to your bookmarks might not be enough to make the icon visible again. MSIE also "forgets" the icon after the icon is no longer in the browser cache.

You're right, there was no shortcut icon link. I was thinking that it would be needed only when the favicon.ico was named something else or located somewhere else, as the browsers would request /favicon.ico by default. It turned out that at least Mozilla has an additional feature that displays the favicon even when the site is not bookmarked if there's that link rel="shortcut icon" in the source, so I've added that line to the HTML now. I have also fixed the MIME type for .ico files, now it should use the type image/x-icon instead of the default text/plain. Let me know if you still run into problems. I know that some browser versions don't support the favicon thing, but now it should be working for the ones that do support it.

micro · Post by **micro** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:38 pm

avij wrote:Let me know if you still run into problems.

Everything's fine now with both my browsers

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:47 pm

Nothing too see for me

.

avij · Post by **avij** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:18 am

bhoeyb wrote:Nothing too see for me .

If you're using MSIE, try removing EBT from your bookmarks (if it's there) and then add EBT to your bookmarks. MSIE won't display the icon otherwise (and might not display it even if you do those things).

BogPoet · Post by **BogPoet** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:40 am

IE6 - works for me, although I had to add the site to my favorites (no, I had never done that - so, shoot me

). It now also appears in the address bar, just like Donald said.

codi · Post by **codi** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 1:16 pm

BogPoet wrote:IE6 - works for me, although I had to add the site to my favorites (no, I had never done that - so, shoot me ). It now also appears in the address bar, just like Donald said.

Same here.

micro · Post by **micro** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 7:53 pm

EuroBillTracker wrote:How about using the single paw as the icon and using the space freed after removing the banner ad for a set of paws ?

Here is a banner design (just an experiment):

The paw on the left should perhaps be twisted counter-clockwise a bit, but I couldn't do this. I also would like to put a wrinkled euronote in the lower right corner.

In this directory is all the "raw material" that led to the above. Anyone who wants to go on designing can download the stuff from there.

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 8:11 pm

Donald wrote:I have IE6. First the icon was not there - then I bookmarked EBT once again - the icon appeared in my "favorites" and now it also appears in my URL box.

Next step: Add the icon to the forum as well!

It's not here for me!

I have IE 6.O as well. I have bookmarked it again, but nothing happens.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 8:55 pm

The paw disappeared some days ago. I just re-bookmarked EBT again, still no paw!

BogPoet · Post by **BogPoet** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:00 pm

I don't seem to have a problem. I also tried to access the icon directly (ie have written http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/favicon.ico in the address bar) and it's there...

avij · Post by **avij** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:24 pm

Donald wrote:The paw disappeared some days ago. I just re-bookmarked EBT again, still no paw!

I blame MSIE:

avij wrote:MSIE also "forgets" the icon after the icon is no longer in the browser cache.

.. so perhaps you should try using some other browser. Once MSIE has forgotten the icon it's really painful to make it understand the icon again and it's really not worth the trouble to make it visible again. I know, I've been dealing with this issue in the past. The icon is still there, there have been no changes to that part of the site.

wouter · Post by **wouter** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:29 pm

It was there this afternoon but now it has disapeared

Voting topic for the new EBT icon

Which is the best bookmark icon for EBT?